Photo: Connormah · CC0A smaller share of renter households than 98% of Canadian towns: 6.1%
The share of residents who moved in within the year is 5.9%, against 11% across Canada’s towns. The 2021 Census put Twin Brooks’s population at 5,102, in 1,800 households. In Twin Brooks, 16% of households are one person living alone. 14% of residents are aged 15 to 24, more than in 89% of Canadian towns.
Twin Brooks is older than 75% of Canadian towns: a median age of 46.7
All figures are the 2021 Census’s unless another date is shown. Every five-year age group as a share of residents; ticks mark the typical town.
55–59 is the most common age band: nearly one in ten residents, 1.3 times the share across Canada’s towns. On the census count, 14% of residents are under 15. The highest share aged 65 or over among Alberta’s towns is Country Hills Village’s: 36%.
Median age of Canadian towns of 2,500+
■ Twin Brooks, 46.7. The typical town is 42.
Broad ages · share of residents
Women and men · all residents
50% women, 50% men
About an even split.
Bigger households than 84% of Canadian towns: 2.8 people each on average
Who shares a home: household types and sizes.
Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns
People per household
Canada’s towns.
Compared with 8.2% across Canada’s towns, 6.1% of households are one-parent families here.
Twin Brooks ranks below 93% of Canadian towns on common-law partners: 4.4%
How adults live as couples, or don’t, with common-law unions shown on their own.
Marital status · residents 15 and over
Singles who have never married make up 27% of adults, beside a typical 27%. Set beside that, just over one in ten residents 15 and over live common-law across Canada’s towns.
83% of households live in a single-detached house, a share 78% of Canadian towns don’t reach
The kinds of homes people live in, who owns and who rents, and how old the homes are. Prices, rents and shelter costs are on Cost of living.
Type of home
Owners and renters · share of households
When homes were built · share of homes
Households in buildings of five or more storeys are rarer here than in nearly three quarters of Canadian towns. The benchmark for households in single-detached houses across Canada’s towns: 64%.
A median household income of $136,700 a year
Incomes are 2020’s, the census’s reference year, and include pandemic benefits such as CERB. Total household income: the median household, and the spread from low to high.
Households by income · share of households
Twin Brooks’s median household took in $136,700 before tax, 59% more than the median across Canada’s towns ($86,000). Across Alberta’s towns the median is $92,200. Emergency and recovery benefits reached 28% of those with an income, beside a typical 28%.
A higher share of immigrants than 76% of Canadian towns, at 34%
Birthplaces and arrival years of immigrants, citizenship and recent moves.
Immigrants, by continent of birth · share of all residents; the bar runs to 40%
When immigrants arrived · share of immigrants
Citizenship and moving · share of residents
Recent arrivals are 15% of immigrants (2011 to 2021), beside 27% across Canada’s towns. Elsewhere, 17% of residents are immigrants across Canada’s towns. The largest groups of immigrants were born in Asia (78%) and in Europe (11%).
45% of residents belong to a visible minority, a share 81% of Canadian towns don’t reach
Residents’ own answers on visible minority, Indigenous identity and religion.
Visible minority and Indigenous identity · all residents
Religion · all residents
Other faiths: Hindu (6.3%), Muslim (5.9%) and Buddhist (2.3%). Against that, 15% of residents belong to a visible minority across Canada’s towns. Higher than in 63% of Canadian towns: 39% of residents said they have no religion. Indigenous residents: 1.2% here and 2.8% across Canada’s towns.
60% have English as their mother tongue; 6.4% also speak French
Who can speak English and French, mother tongue, and the language spoken most at home.
Can hold a conversation in · share of all residents
Mother tongue · share of all residents
20% most often speak a language other than English or French at home, and 2.9% speak neither official language. At 1%, the share of residents whose mother tongue is French is lower than in 71% of Canadian towns. Against a figure of 7.5% across Canada’s towns, the share of bilingual residents in Twin Brooks comes in at 6.4%.
Degree holders aged 25 to 64: 52%, a higher share than 87% of Canadian towns
The highest diploma or degree of adults of working age (25 to 64).
Highest qualification · residents 25 to 64
Some 1.9% have no certificate, diploma or degree, against a typical 9.5%. As a yardstick, 27% of residents 25 to 64 hold a bachelor’s degree or higher across Canada’s towns.
An employment rate of 58%
Census day was in May 2021, mid-pandemic: some of these rates are lower than in a usual year. Four labour figures from the census. Jobs, industries and the commute are on Work & commute.
About as many work here as in the typical town: 58%, against 58% across Canada’s towns.
Oldest by rank: 13th of 41 towns of 5,024 to 5,185 people
Towns of about this size, placed by median age.
At one end is River-Osborne (31.6), at the other Saint-Donat (60.4). Big Lakes County (45.6), Capilano (45.9), Electoral Area C, North Okanagan (47.2) and Hearst (48): the towns nearest Twin Brooks in median age.
1 in 6 nearby towns have a higher median age than Twin Brooks
Places nearby, shaded by median age, each linked to its page.
| Town | People | Away | Median age | 65+ | Immigrants |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Brooks | 5,102 | — | 46.7 | 19% | 34% |
| MacEwan | 6,102 | 0.9 km | 36.9 | 12% | 38% |
| Skyrattler | 2,956 | 1.3 km | 42.3 | 20% | 33% |
| Mactaggart | 3,603 | 1.8 km | 38.4 | 15% | 38% |
| Bearspaw | 5,192 | 2.1 km | 48.2 | 27% | 32% |
| Cavanagh | 7,300 | 2.2 km | 38.5 | 15% | 41% |
| Blue Quill | 4,567 | 2.3 km | 33.5 | 11% | 38% |
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What these tables don’t give. Unpaid care, car ownership and internet access aren’t in the Census Profile, nor is the change by age since 2016. Ethnic origins other than visible minority and Indigenous identity are left out of the charts.
- The census’s own words. In the census, “visible minority” is the Employment Equity Act’s term for people who are non-white in colour or race and not Indigenous. Like immigrant status, Indigenous identity and religion, which residents reported themselves, it is compared with other towns, never turned into a label.
- Against Alberta’s towns and Canada’s towns. For each measure we take the median of Alberta’s towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, then the median of all Canadian towns. Neither counts whole cities or reserves, and every percentile is a Canadian one.
- Neighbourhoods are sums of small areas. The figures sum the neighbourhood’s dissemination areas, since the census is published for municipalities only. Medians are estimated from the age and income groups, counts carry Statistics Canada’s rounding, and no 2016 count matches these boundaries.
Questions about Twin Brooks’s residents
What is the median income in Twin Brooks?
Half of Twin Brooks’s households had more than $136,700 in 2020, before tax; across Canada’s towns the median was $86,000.
What is the population of Twin Brooks?
Twin Brooks had 5,102 residents at the 2021 Census.
What is the average age in Twin Brooks?
The median age is 46.7, older than 75% of Canadian towns. 14% are under 15 and 19% 65 or older.
Is Twin Brooks bilingual?
6.4% of residents can speak both English and French (typical across Canada’s towns: 7.5%); 0% speak French only and 91% English only. French is the mother tongue of 1%.
How diverse is Twin Brooks?
Immigrants: 34% (Canada’s towns: 17%). Visible minority: 45%. Indigenous identity: 1.2%.
What religion are people in Twin Brooks?
39% said they have no religion and 44% that they are Christian; 17% named another faith.
Is Twin Brooks good for families?
14% of residents are under 15 (Canada’s towns: 16%); couple families are 69% of households and one-parent families 6.1%. Schools near Twin Brooks are on its Schools page.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).